Posts by InABunkerUnderSF

I sadly agree with you. Interest on the national debt is killing us. America needs to pay for Obama's excesses before we can consider the kind of huge expenditures that Mr. Singer's proposal would require. The problem with Mars exploration is you have to go big or stay home.

On the other hand I would be in favor of granting major tax breaks for businesses willing to invest in space development.

Eventually, with the help of contacts in Kazakhstan, Ms Phillips was able to secure a new visa, a US passport and an exchange of cash that allowed her to escape detention and enter the country, where she ended up staying for six months.

Does this mean she can now come here, register and vote in our elections?

There's something fishy about this story. The NZ Honorary Consul in Khazakstan is located at 247 Rozybakiev Street,Bostandyk District 050060, Almaty, Almaty City. They don't have a phone number listed, just an e-mail address. She should have been able to call +7 495 956 3579, the NZ embassy in Moscow, for assistance. This is the sort of informatoin one should keep on their smart phone and written in an address book when traveling to excrement pit countries.

One of the things that is not mentioned enough about the decision to drop the atomic bomb is the number of allied prisoners of war and civilian internees saved by ending the war quickly.

I have an Australian friend whose mother was Dutch from Sumatra and whose Australian father was captured at the fall of Singapore. Both survived over four and a half years of Japanese captivity. His mother was marched from place to place around Sumatra with other women as they dropped one by one from tropical diseses, malnutrition and bayonetting. Of hundreds of women taken in 1942 she said "several" were still alive at the end of the war and that she doubted any of them would have lasted another month.

Helium 3 fusion is not yet a reality. Given the current rate of progress it will be some time, if ever, before it actually becomes a reality. By the time the Chinese are tearing up the the moon's surface trying to separate H-3 from moon rocks we'll be extracting it from the atmospheres of Titan or Uranus.

Besides, the progress of the Chinese space program has not been... stellar.

But Im confident that many will set aside their own personal bitterness, not because theyre personally satisfied by the words of the Prime Minister, but because they recognize how important this moment is for the United States.

He didn't tell anyone to "GET OVER IT" - "George's" caps. I find nothing in this instance objectionable in Mr. Earnest's statement and believe Prime Minister Abe's gesture will probably be constructive.

The author might have pointed out that today Japan is a US ally in a great geopolitical struggle with China.

A "senior content strategist" is not the same thing as a "Chief executive", either in the US or Australia.

BTW, the article was originally published in "Smart Company" (http://www.smartcompany.com.au/) with the title "How Donald Trumps election led to this senior employee quitting her job with a tech giant".

Obama will apologize for the oil embargo that forced Japan to bomb Perl Harbor. Then he’ll apologize for the loss of Japanese lives taken during the attack. Don’t be surprised if Obama goes on to apologize for the amount of time it took US forces on Bataan to surrender, for their lethargy during the march to Camp O’Donnell and for any damage to Japanese bayonets along the way.

Tried tuning in and listening on-line. Could only take a few minutes of him singing the praises of the PRC and claiming that Taiwan "broke" with the mainland.

No mention of the truth that the KMT were driven from the mainland after being starved of arms due to the efforts of leftists in the US State Department. No mention of China's role in the Korean war and the DPRK's development of their nuclear arsenal. No mention of the 30+ million Chinese slaughtered by Mao and the communists.

After the 2000 election the dems and their mouthpieces in the press had convinced the Taliban that George W. Bush was a weak leader who would not be able to unite the American people for a sustained counter attack in the event of a major attack on US soil.

Al Qaeda and the Taliban underestimated him as badly as the press had.

Babs ran for congress and lost to a dem. His term as sheriff expires at the end of this year, before Trump takes office if I'm not mistaken.

The newly elected sheriff in Pinal County is Mark Lamb - straight, wife and 5 kids, spent 2 years on mission in Argentina. Not likely to generate as many national headlines but has a good immigration stance and we hope to see the occasional PCSO patrol on the west side of the county.

True but the point of the recount is not just to steal the election but to delegitimize Trump's presidency. Reducing his electoral vote total would contribute to that, plus establish a very toxic precedent. The following is from InfoWars:

Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI) told Fox News Tucker Carlson that Democrats are trying to stall the vote recount in Wisconsin so that it is not completed before the December 13 deadline, robbing Donald Trump of the electoral votes from that state...Duffy noted that Jill Stein and Hillary Clinton operatives in Dane County Wisconsin, where liberal Madison is located, are deliberately slowing down the vote counting process (primarily by doing a hand recount) in an effort to disenfranchise Wisconsin electors from being able to cast their votes for Trump.

The lack of bars on the windows and door show this area, about 20 miles north of Santiago, has been fairly crime free. A wall surrounds the property.

20 miles/30 km north of Santiago puts you in farm and orchard country. Haven't been there in a long time but rural Chile generally didn't used to be bad - lock your rental car but don't worry too much about walking around town, at least in daytime. Think suburban Yakima, WA in terms of climate and population density.

Any detached house in Chile is likely to have a wall - with broken glass embedded in the top. Guns are hard to come by. I believe semi-automatics and military calibers are prohibited.

This is one of the first things Jeff Sessions should tackle. Start in California.

I'd say Arizona should be allowed to go first. Taxpayers here had to pay for lawsuits brought by Holder and Lynch that took down our ability to determine the citizenship of people voting in our elections.

The People are trying to learn themselves because schools did not teach them.

As well they should. One unsuccessful candidate for the presidency used an English translation of an old 1922 Mussolini campaign slogan - "Forte Unita" as her 2016 campaign slogan - "Stronger Together".

People should learn more about what Fascism really is. They will be less likely to vote for Fascist candidates.

Ah - but people in CA are not allowed to carry weapons to protect themselves. So when people introduce new, slow moving prey items like alpacas and joggers into the mountain lion's habitat the results are predictable.

Mountain lions are protected under CA fish and game laws. Either shoot, shovel and shut up or keep the kids indoors in front of the Playstation and get a big dog to guard your alpacas or learn to live with the fact that from time to time somebody is gonna get munched.

SF General is sort of on the border of the Mission district (Latino neighborhood) and Potrero Hill (OJ’s old neighborhood). My guess is some Hispanic gang bangers saw a black guy removing their graffiti, didn’t notice he was a city employee, assumed he was from a neighboring gang and took action to defend their turf.

Yes but, It’s 36 degrees and partly cloudy in Maricopa, AZ right now. We usually have a few days where it gets below freezing on really clear nights in late December or January. This is the coldest I’ve seen it here in 5 years before winter. It’s gong to be a cold one.

Their problem is, the rise and fall of sea level has less to do with the amount of water in the ocean basins than with plate tectonics and convection within the earth's mantle. If you look at coastal cities around the Mediterranean, where we have a few thousand years worth of human harbor construction, you find that at Alexandria "sea level" has risen and that Ephesus and Carthage are both inland now. All caused by crustal motion.

This suggests that our coastal cities will probably be about where they are now in 100 years - unless there is a LOT of seismic activity over the next century.

Depends on where in Colombia. Bogotá at 8600 feet, bring your own O2 but don’t sweat the mosquitoes. Cali or Medellin at 4000 to 5000 feet maybe. Cartagena on the coast or anywhere down south, watch the bugs. They’re mean.